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Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT)
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Springer, Matthew G.; Ballou, Dale; Hamilton, Laura; Le, Vi-Nhuan; Lockwood, J. R.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Pepper, Matthew; Stecher, Brian M. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
This paper presents the results of a rigorous experiment examining the impact of pay for performance on student achievement and instructional practice. This study, conducted by the National Center on Performance Incentives in partnership with the RAND Corporation examines an experimental pay for performance program administered via a randomized…
Descriptors: Evidence, Control Groups, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement
The Impact of a Dynamic Approach to Professional Development on Teacher Instruction and Student Learning: Results from an Experimental Study
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Antoniou, Panayiotis; Kyriakides, Leonidas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
This paper argues that Educational Effectiveness Research (EER) should establish closer links with research on teacher professional development. A dynamic integrated approach (DIA) to teacher professional development is proposed. The methods and results of a study comparing the impact of the DIA and the Holistic Approach (HA) to teacher…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Skills, Professional Development
The Missouri Mathematics Effectiveness Project: An Experimental Study in Fourth-Grade Classrooms.
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Good, Thomas L.; Grouws, Douglas A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
The effectiveness of an experimental mathematics teaching program was investigated. Observational measures revealed that teachers implemented the treatment. Analyses of product data showed that students of treatment teachers outperformed those of controls. Thus, teachers and/or teaching methods exerted a significant difference on student progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Mathematics, Experimental Programs, Grade 4
WHAT TYPES OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE EFFECTIVE.
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KIRST, MICHAEL W. – 1967
DATA ON THE LASTING EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE AMBIGUOUS. EVALUATIONS HAVE BEEN HAMPERED BY A LACK OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES AND CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS AND BY THE IMPRECISION OF THE STANDARD MEASURES. EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS, THOSE WHICH PRODUCE INCREASES IN LEARNING, SHOULD FEATURE (1) CURRICULUM ADAPTATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research
A Study of the Reading Performance of Entering College Freshmen.
Walker, Carlene – 1982
A study was conducted to determine the reading level of students in a college remedial reading and writing class, the gains they made during a semester of instruction, the differences in gains made by students taking the remedial class alone and those taking that class and the normal basic composition course, and the differences in gains made by…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Experimental Programs, Higher Education
Excellence in Teacher Education: 1969 Distinguished Achievement Awards of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1969
This pamphlet describes the Distinguished Achievement Awards of The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education which were conceived in 1965 as an annual event to encourage member colleges and universities to describe their successful programs and, in turn, to stimulate other institutions to greater action. Presented in the first half…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement